Comparative literature Books

This book investigates how decolonising the curriculum might work in English studies - one of the fields that bears the most robust traces of its imperial and colonial roots - from the perspective of the semi-periphery of the academic world- system. It...

This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing-two writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar transregional cartographies, points of connection and translation,...

The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural imagination. This has become apparent again since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the turn of the millennium when...

The Stuttering Son: A Literary Study of Boys and Their Fathers examines stuttering, a condition which overwhelmingly affects boys, in terms of the complex relationships a number of male authors have had with their fathers. Most of these writers,...

In this work, the author contends that we should create a comparative framework for the study of imaginary worlds in the social sciences. Making use of extended examples from both science fiction and fantasy fiction, as well as the...

This book proposes a comparative approach to the supernatural short stories of Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant. It offers an alternative to predominantly novel-centric and Anglo-centric perspectives on literary pre-modernism by...

There is a general perception that almost all writing in antiquity was done by men. However, some important literature written by women during this period has survived, and many other women writers published work that has not been preserved. Women...

'A magisterial, beautifully presented, splendidly researched companion to the life of the late Chief Inspector'- Colin Dexter.Paul Taylor has provided the most detailed account of the habits, opinions, loves and hates of Inspector Morse from all the...

This book aims to illuminate the life and work of four German-speaking writers exiled in Britain after 1933. Gerda Mayer, Gabriele Tergit, Ruth Feiner and Eva Priester, in different and unique ways, all articulate ideas of (national) identity and home in...

Tracing the literary relationship between British women and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Kathryn Freeman argues that women writers, distinct from their male counterparts, interrogated Orientalist distortions of India through the lens of gender. Her...

Water Stories in the Anthropocene explores how climate change has emerged as a major theme in our daily lives as it poses a myriad of economic, scientific, political and cultural challenges in the age of the Anthropocene.

This volume looks at the problem from diverse periods and standpoints and shows us that this challenge is, in fact, a legacy of the Mahabharata and the responses to this challenge is what makes the text ever-contemporary to different readers of different...

The Social Imagination of the Romantic Wife provides biographical information as it relates to the literary works of four selected individuals on their social and professional roles as writers.

This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of America's greatest playwrights, also highlighting the playwright's deep indebtedness to the Southern literary conventions.

The Hidden D. H. Lawrence is a new study of the psychological and literary aspects of a great writer's lyrical genius.

Understanding (Post)feminist Girlhood Through Young Adult Fantasy Literature takes advantage of growing critical interest in popular young adult texts and their influence on young people.

This book is response to the recent surge of formidable voices that consistently demean and attempt to reverse the gains of pan-Africanism. This study adopts a design that interrogates literary works, data from questionnaires and social media to...

It challenges stereotypes surrounding Bangladeshi migration through seminal 20th and 21st-century Bangladeshi novels in English. It focuses on the complexities of migratory experiences through various gender and age groups while setting the study within...

This book seeks to complement the traditional scope of translation studies, which has primarily centered on translating English into other languages. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the opposite translation trajectory-moving from Chinese...

This book contains a classic guide to historical study of early modern Chinese fiction from the late Qing Dynasty till early republican China. It does not merely study the new fiction writing in China, which was strongly influenced by the western...

This collection of essays expands the study of that immensely widely read and much-adapted novel, beyond the first book - The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (usually known simply as Robinson Crusoe) - to take in the far less...

This book highlights the unique history and cultural context of retranslation in Turkey, offering readers a survey of the diverse range of fields, disciplines, and genres in which retranslation has assumed a central position. Further, it addresses...

As the first book to introduce and analyze cultural studies in contemporary China, this volume is an important resource for Western scholars wishing to understand the rise and development of cultural studies in China. Organized according to subject, it...

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the socio-cultural and political context of modern China in terms of its interaction with America and the West, focusing on the influence of the well-known Chinese writer and intellectual Lin Yutang...

This book examines the reception of British Romanticism in India and East Asia (including China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan). Building on recent scholarship on "Global Romanticism", it develops a reciprocal, cross-cultural model of scholarship, in which...

This collection gives a diversified account of world literature, examining not only the rise of the concept, but also problems such as the relation between the local and the universal, and the tensions between national culture and global ethics. In...

Surging from the ontopoietic vital timing of life, human self-consciousness prompts the innermost desire to rise above its brute facts. Imaginatio creatrix inspires us to fabulate these facts into events and plots with personal significance attempting to...

When I first thought about this topic I encountered many ex­ pressions of surprise among my better-read friends, and a number of them asked me: "Is there really much love in Thomas Mann's works, and is it really important?" The...

America es una sola aunque pocos lo crean, un dia por encima del Pentägono y las bananas y el petr6leo los hombres comprenderän la imbecilidad incurable de los nacionalismos. Julio Cortäzar Ultimo Round The essays collected in...

Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet eine breit angelegte, digital unterstützte, korpusbasierte Studie zur Referenzierung von Orten und Räumen in Erzähltexten. Aus literaturwissenschaftlicher, insbesondere narratologischer Forschung sowie mathematischen,...

In diesem Open-Access-band geht es um die Thematisierung des Verhältnisses zwischen den gegenwärtig getrennten „Zwei Kulturen" und Umrisse ihrer neuen Synthese in Richtung auf eine zeitgenössische, auf Interdisziplinarität gegründeten „Dritten Kultur"...

This book combines two collections of essays written by the late professor Zuoliang Wang, works that explore the affinity between literatures and peoples, with special attention given to that between Chinese literature and western literature in the 20th...

Die klassische Gattung des Versepos von Milton bis Klopstock ist nach dem Ende ihrer letzten Hochphasen im europäischen Raum (je nach Sprachkultur zwischen 1750 und 1850) wenig beachtet, obschon weiterhin eine erstaunliche Breite an Formen und Inhalten...

This study of Joseph Conrad's influential work "Heart of Darkness" presents for the first time the German-language reception of this reference text in the debate on postcolonialism. The spectrum ranges from Conrad's contemporaries (like Kafka) to many...

Die 17 Beiträge dieses Bandes verfolgen eine Standortbestimmung der Philologien, die - ausgehend vom Volksgeist des 19. und der Kulturkunde des 20. Jahrhunderts - sich im 21. Jahrhundert neu positionieren müssen. Die einzelnen Beiträge gehen auf Fragen...

Die Existenz wortinterner Sprachwechsel wurde bisher in der Linguistik weitgehend verneint. Diese Einschätzung wurde dadurch begünstigt, dass zumeist europäische Sprachpaare betrachtet wurden. Fanta Christiane Heine analysiert in ihrem Buch wortinterne...

1966 bezeichnete Roland Barthes den Satz „Ich bin tot" als unmögliche Aussage, denn sie behaupte das radikal Widersprüchliche: Leben und Tod. Der tote Ich-Erzähler in Prosa, der seit den 1950er Jahren Konjunktur hat, macht dieses Paradoxon zum...

Florian Nieser zeigt in diesem Buch den interpretatorischen Mehrwert von uneindeutigen Zeichen auf, die Irritationen und Ambivalenzen produzieren. Ausgehend vom Blickwinkel eines ‚informierten' zeitgenössischen Rezipienten des Willehalm und der Bataille...

There is a prehistory of the adultery novel, which became a pan-European literary paradigm in the second half of the 19th century. In the wake of the French Revolution, secular marriage legislation emerges, producing a metaphorical surplus that is still...

This book argues that increasingly transnational reading contexts of the twenty-first century place new pressures on fundamental questions about how we read literary fiction. Prompted by the stylistic strategies of three European émigré writers of the...

This study explores the work of Western avant-garde writers who traveled to and wrote about Asia and North Africa. Though exoticist in outlook, many of these writers were also anti-colonialist and thus avoided some of the pitfalls of academic orientalism...

What should literature with political aims look like? This book traces two rival responses to this question, one prizing clarity and the other confusion, which have dominated political aesthetics since the late nineteenth century. Revisiting recurrences...